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...urgent questions of the day were economic: how best to regulate the economy and what to do about a tariff policy that kept consumer prices artificially high by protecting American companies from foreign competition. The tariff had been created decades earlier to raise revenue (income tax being a thing of the future) and to nurture a stripling American manufacturing establishment. As the manufacturers prospered, they convinced their captives in Congress that ever thicker blankets of protection were needed to preserve American jobs. Wilson, calling the tariff "stiff and stupid," promised an immediate revision. Roosevelt, arguing that a speedy change would...
...Give generous tax breaks for cosmetic surgery...
...government should do, and things non-governmental groups should do. Raise the income and wages of low-income workers. Basic things like raising the minimum wage. Helping with grassroots campaigns, ballot initiatives in several states to raise the minimum wage. I think we ought to expand earned-income tax credits. One method available for single workers is to eliminate the marriage penalty. Raise the wages of low-income workers in the service economy, where many millions are now. There will be millions more in that economy. If they're able to organize and have a union in the workplace, that...
...marred by corruption allegations, including his trial in 1970 on charges of gunrunning for the I.R.A. (he was acquitted). As Taoiseach, his economic policies helped kindle Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" boom, but his last years in office were dogged by allegations of insider trading, conflicts of interest and tax evasion; he resigned in 1992 amid a phone-tapping scandal. In his farewell speech, borrowing from Othello, Haughey told the Irish parliament: "I have done the state some service and they know it." Numbers 7 Number of people whose deaths were attributed to excessive video-game playing last year, including...
...highways over the next several years. The government is facing stiff opposition to another major reform of the country's onerous labor laws from labor unions and leftist politicians, but it is trying, at least, to get the process started. It is championing special economic zones with 10-year tax holidays, duty-free imports and the possibility of less restrictive labor laws...